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His interests, hobbies, recreation, values, lovers, personality...

So he didn't have any? He just wrote and drank. That explains it. Plus he organized a gentleman's farm.

How many millions did he make?

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

According to biographer Richard Lingeman, "Main Street made [Lewis] rich—earning him about 4 million current [2018] dollars". But the book is from 2002. If someone has manually updated the value, they should label it as such. I suspect changing this to "[2002] dollars" is the fix. Dhalamh (talk) 16:45, 26 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Answered my own question, if you go back in history, you see "about three million current [2002] dollars", the year of publication of the biography. Mystery solved and article updated. Dhalamh (talk) 17:03, 26 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

the link for the 46th reference.

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it is broken. 67.141.108.237 (talk) 14:20, 15 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Done I added archive parameters. Peaceray (talk) 20:00, 15 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

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His interests, hobbies, recreation, values, lovers, personality...

How many millions did he make?

the link for the 46th reference.